This NPR News segment covers the aftermath of a U.S.-Israeli airstrike that killed Iran’s former supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and members of his family, the fallout from a controversial U.S. spending and tax bill impacting health care, the rollback of affirmative action guidanc
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